ESN Associate Program Leader (APL) - Platform and Infrastructure - ACTIVE SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIRED

LLNL•Livermore, CA

12d•Hybrid

About The Position

We have an opening for an ESN Associate Program Leader (APL) - Platform and Infrastructure. You will provide strategic and operational leadership to advance ESN and ESN Hub modernization for the infrastructure organization that enables reliable, secure, scalable, and modern enterprise services across ESN. The Associate Program Leader will lead a broad portfolio of technical workstreams and serve as a trusted partner in shaping the future of the ESN infrastructure. This position is in the Enterprise Infrastructure Services (EIS) Division, within the Computing Directorate, in support of LivIT. This position offers a hybrid schedule, blending in-person and virtual presence. You will have the flexibility to work from home up to one day per week.

Requirements

This position requires an active Department of Energy (DOE) Q-level clearance or active Top-Secret clearance issued by another U.S. government agency at the time of hire.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field, or equivalent combination of technical training and experience.
Highly advanced experience leading large, diverse technical organizations in the delivery of mission critical enterprise IT infrastructure with minimal direction in a complex enterprise environment.
Extensive experience mentoring technical teams on modern VDI architectures, such as Citrix, VMware Horizon, or AVD, hybrid cloud integration patterns, and enterprise-scale network designs that support large user environments, including SD-WAN, QoS policies, protocol optimization, and multi-datacenter load balancing.
SME experience in enterprise IT vendor management and strategic vendor partnerships, including Microsoft EA/AWS EDP negotiations, licensing optimization across subscription, consumption-based, and perpetual models, RFP/RFQ processes for infrastructure and software platforms, SLA-driven contract negotiations, FinOps and cloud cost governance, and evaluation of emerging technology providers such as Microsoft, AWS, VMware, Cisco, and Oracle.
Highly advanced strategic leadership experience translating vision into enterprise modernization programs, including cloud migrations, datacenter consolidation, application rationalization, mission-critical infrastructure upgrades, DevSecOps transformation, and BCDR architecture for tier-1 applications.
Highly advanced skills in communication and collaborative leadership, building trust across infrastructure, application, security, and operations teams while engaging executive stakeholders and C-suite executives (CIO, CISO, CFO) through transparent communication and technical credibility.
Expert experience leading enterprise infrastructure transformation, including data center modernization, such as hyperconverged infrastructure, VMware vSAN, and Nutanix, network evolution, hybrid cloud architecture using technologies such as VMware Cloud Foundation, Azure Stack HCI, and AWS Outposts, and storage upgrades including flash arrays and NVMe.

Nice To Haves

Expert experience building technology roadmaps, securing executive sponsorship, and delivering large-scale initiatives with measurable business or mission impact while maintaining operational continuity is preferred.
Experienced infrastructure leader with deep technical credibility, strong people leadership, and a clear vision for evolving ESN to meet future mission requirements.
Effective in both day-to-day operational leadership and long-term strategy for platform and infrastructure services.

Responsibilities

Lead program direction for ESN modernization by aligning with ESN leadership and architecture, and developing and executing long-term cloud, server, and network strategies to support program growth.
Lead and coordinate the Platform and Infrastructure portfolio in support of ESN objectives by collaborating with key enterprise and program leadership and NNSA stakeholders to enhance interoperability across ESN and adjacent programs.
Manage day-to-day operations of on-prem and cloud infrastructure to maximize uptime and efficiency and provide leadership/mentorship to program and technical teams.
Provide technical and organizational leadership for infrastructure modernization and operational excellence by setting priorities, aligning resources, optimizing staffing, and ensuring effective execution across multiple technical teams.
Serve as a visionary leader for the future of ESN infrastructure and partner with ESN leadership and stakeholders to deliver resilient, secure, and efficient services.
Support planning, budgeting, staffing, and supply chain coordination for infrastructure operations and lifecycle management.
Work effectively with vendors and internal stakeholders by applying a strong understanding of procurement processes and lifecycle acquisition activities to negotiate contracts, establish Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and manage service providers.
Support governance, IT policies and cybersecurity protocols across the organization.
Perform other duties as assigned.